In news that suggests we’ve officially run out of original ideas, Blumhouse has announced that Octavia Spencer is coming back to reprise her role in a sequel to “Ma,” the 2019 horror-revenge flick that no one was really asking to revisit.
Yes, that “Ma,” the one where Spencer plays a lonely woman who lets teenagers party in her basement only for them to find out that she isn’t just lonely — she’s harboring a deranged high school trauma-fueled vendetta.
Directed by Tate Taylor (“The Help”) and written by Scotty Landes, the original “Ma” earned $60M worldwide on a shoestring $5M budget — proving that sometimes, the right mix of camp, confusion, and “what did I just watch?” can be wildly profitable.
Jokes aside, I’m guessing the sequel is happening because “Ma” unexpectedly blew up on Netflix and went viral on social media. In March 2025 alone, it snagged 7 million views and climbed into Netflix’s global top 3. Considering how cheap the first one was to make—and Blumhouse’s knack for squeezing every last drop out of their properties— it makes sense that we’re getting a “Ma 2.”